The planet’s rotation was completed 1.59 milliseconds short of a 24-hour day on June 29, breaking the record for the world’s shortest day in modern history.

If it seems like the world is moving fast, know that it truly is. On June 29, the National Physical Laboratory in England recorded the shortest day in history: 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours.

The planet’s rotation was completed 1.59 milliseconds short of a 24-hour day on June 29, breaking the record for the world’s shortest day in modern history.

The Earth’s rotation has been speeding up in recent years. In 2020, the planet hit a new record by having its 28 shortest days since accurate atomic clock measuring began.

The Earth has set a new record for the shortest day. The planet completed a full spin on 29 June 2022, in a time that was 1.59 milliseconds – little over one thousandth of a second - shorter ...

A mysterious wobble of Earth's polar axis may be behind this record-fast day. The atomic clocks tracking our time just logged the shortest day of the past 60 years. We track our days as all having ...